Fictions of embassy literature and diplomacy in early modern Europe / Timothy Hampton.
| Author/creator | Hampton, Timothy |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, |
| Description | xi, 235 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : angels and pimps : toward a diplomatic poetics -- Words and deeds : diplomacy and humanist fiction -- The useful and the honorable : the ethics of mediation in the late Renaissance -- Epic and the law of nations : Tasso's Jerusalem delivered -- From Cortez to Camões : identity and authority in the discourse of discovery -- Big states and small states : sovereignty, diplomatic recognition, and the theater of Pierre Corneille -- Hamlet's diplomacy : state-building, dispatch, and revenge -- The tragedy of delegation : diplomatic action and tragic form in Racine's Andromaque -- Conclusion : in the Hôtel des Ambassadeurs. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-228) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008043684 |
| ISBN | 9780801447754 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0801447755 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |